The eyes of Texas…and the brains
Two months ago, all us folks at the Rake were asked to name our favorite Texans. One of the knuckleheads who works here answered George W. She admitted she’d done so just to piss me off. I told her, though, that it didn’t bother me at all, but she’d find out later that printed evidence of her lack of depth was a bad thing to leave lying around. Just look at the writings of Harriet Miers.
As my favorite Texan, I named Molly Ivins. For those of you with really long memories, you might recall when the Minneapolis papers used to have writers like…well…Molly Ivins. She left Minneapolis in 82, and after working for the NY Times for a while ended up back in Texas, where she’s been the very best at keeping her exceptional perceptiveness trained on Bush (or “Shrub” as she likes to call him) and his cronies.
Today, the Strib printed her column, which, interestingly, cited a Strib story about vanishing pensions. (Don’t bother to try to find the story on the Strib web site. The people who run their archive should be fired and left without pensions. Try Lexis-Nexis.)
The true theme of what’s going on here, as Molly says, is not so much that Bush, et al. are evil themselves, but that they are letting corporations get away with unspeakable crimes against their workers, and sticking us all with the bill.
That’s Molly Ivins in a nutshell. Some Texans are getting it right. Think of her next time you wish a plague on the entire state of Texas.
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